Does every mainstream media article on Bitcoin end in negativity? - page 4.

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Quote from: aliashraf on August 19, 2017, 12:12:05 AM

Quote from: panju1 on August 18, 2017, 11:56:47 PM

Rather then negativity, I would view it as a disclaimer. You don't want gullible readers suing you and telling that you misled them into investing in Bitcoin and losing a lot of money. Mainstream media are just playing it safe.

I strongly support this pov

It is not just about bitcoin, average typical journalists (they are dominating the field in our era) do not take responsibility by any means. They always put an emergency exit door to be used in case. But OP's discovery is about this door being often placed in the last paragraph, specially when the article has an encouraging headline .... interesting Wink

That is where all the disclaimers are usually placed. Right at the bottom where most people won't read it.
The positive thing to take away from this is at least the headlines are a lot more bullish than they were a year back.

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Quote from: panju1 on August 18, 2017, 11:56:47 PM

Rather then negativity, I would view it as a disclaimer. You don't want gullible readers suing you and telling that you misled them into investing in Bitcoin and losing a lot of money. Mainstream media are just playing it safe.

I strongly support this pov

It is not just about bitcoin, average typical journalists (they are dominating the field in our era) do not take responsibility by any means. They always put an emergency exit door to be used in case. But OP's discovery is about this door being often placed in the last paragraph, specially when the article has an encouraging headline .... interesting Wink

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Rather then negativity, I would view it as a disclaimer. You don't want gullible readers suing you and telling that you misled them into investing in Bitcoin and losing a lot of money. Mainstream media are just playing it safe.

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I may be wrong or completely right. Central banks or banking industries has to do with it. Media just can't stand by its own if there is no such thing as biases. They were a corporation or company who profit by sponsors who work on our financial institutions. We can't actually blame them, it is what reality and money made them. Let them have their glory as of what they want to do and ignored them the way they should be.

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Yes, most of them really do that. But I think they missed the idea that the fact that they are writing anything about btc makes it even more popular. It's just like their writing negative about celebrities but people still follow them. Though some people will steer away right after reading that, we can't dismiss the fact that most people are now smarter than they think. We're not like back in the days where we believe the mainstream media. We now know how to do fact checking since we're in a technology era and with the use of internet informations are just right at the end our tips.

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most of them really make it that way,
it might be happen because of goverment trying to keep their citizen to hold their back to buy it,
they afraid when most of their citizen involved and crash happen,a lot of people will lose all of their sanity.
so to prevent such a thing will not happen in the future,a lot of media publishing something like that.

but not all of them,in my hometown CNN didn't show it that way,
instead they're showing us how much we can earn by mining it :LOL:

just play what you can affor to lose,that is what they said to me

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The ones especially at Forbes.com are like very much like that.

Seems they're trying to steer people away from crypto as an investment. Well, I can't blame them.

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Quote from: Torque on August 18, 2017, 06:03:54 PM

So for years now there's this running joke, that you can spy an MSM Bitcoin 'hit piece' article by either 1) the left compliment title, or 2) by the negative note left by the very last paragraph or the last line. If the headline doesn't turn Average Joe off completely, then the author must always end the article on a negative note to make sure and sway Average Joe away from Bitcoin.

Here's a typical one:

Bitcoin is more valuable than gold — but nowhere near as stable
http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-price-surges-past-gold-chart-2017-8

I'll quote the very last paragraph:

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Despite their similarities, there's one key difference: Gold has been much stabler than bitcoin, as we can see in this chart from Statista, which is based on data from Coindesk and onvista. So, for investors looking for a safe bet, the precious metal is still the way to go.

I beg you, find me one that breaks this format pattern and prove me wrong! Grin

I dont see any negativity in not stability. I only see positive, that Bitcoin price raise while Gold price stays same.

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So for years now there's this running joke, that you can spy an MSM Bitcoin 'hit piece' article by either 1) the left compliment title, or 2) by the negative note left by the very last paragraph or the last line. If the headline doesn't turn Average Joe off completely, then the author must always end the article on a negative note to make sure and sway Average Joe away from Bitcoin.

Here's a typical one:

Bitcoin is more valuable than gold — but nowhere near as stable
http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-price-surges-past-gold-chart-2017-8

I'll quote the very last paragraph:

Quote

Despite their similarities, there's one key difference: Gold has been much stabler than bitcoin, as we can see in this chart from Statista, which is based on data from Coindesk and onvista. So, for investors looking for a safe bet, the precious metal is still the way to go.

I beg you, find me one that breaks this format pattern and prove me wrong! Grin

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